How to get all possible generic type in StructureMap?

Question

I just used StructureMap few days ago. I use StructureMap for collecting all validator class like the following code.

public class BaseClassA {}

public class ClassB : BaseClassA {}

public class ClassC : BaseClassB {}

public BaseClassAValidator : IValidator<BaseClassA>() {}

In StructureMap, I only register IValidator<BaseClassA> interface for BaseClassAValidator class. But I want to get the same result when I call IValidator<ClassB> or IValidator<ClassC> that mean StructureMap should return IValidator<T> where T is requested class or parent class of requested class.

Is it possible? Or I need to manually call it.

Joshua Flanagan Joshua Flanagan · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-11T21:18:31

From the answer to How to use a convention for IRepository<T> with StructureMap mapping

var c = new Container(x =>
{
    x.Scan(scan =>
    {
        // there are other options to expand which assemblies to scan for types
        scan.TheCallingAssembly(); 
        scan.ConnectImplementationsToTypesClosing(typeof (IValidator<>));
    });
});

Now if you request IValidator<ClassC>, you should get BaseClassCValidator.

How to get all possible generic type in StructureMap?

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